When Gov. Rick Scott met with members of the Hispanic Legislative Caucus Wednesday afternoon, one issue emerged three separate times: in-state tuition for undocumented students studying at state colleges and universities.

After telling the group that he would “consider” the proposal if a bill was filed, Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, D-Miami, immediately followed up.

“Is there something more you can give us?” he asked.

Each time, Scott steered the conversation towards the overall cost of tuition.

“I’m worried about the cost of tuition, tuition is too high,” he said.

Scott was joined during the meeting by newly-minted Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who until 2012 was a member of the House and Legislative Hispanic Caucus. He was born in Spain and raised in Miami.

Asked after the meeting if he supports the in-state tuition plan, Lopez-Cantera hedged.

“The legislative process will work itself out…that process has a way of being the process that it is,” he said.

Though legislation proposing some version of the in-state tuition plan has been filed 11 different times, many of those bills didn’t get committee hearings.

In 2012, activists staged a sit-in in Lopez-Cantera’s office to seek his support for that year’s proposal. At the time, Lopez-Cantera was the House Majority Leader, which caused the group – We Are Florida - to assign him some blame for the House bill gaining no momentum.

“As a member of the Hispanic Caucus we depend on him to be the voice for immigrants across Florida,” the group wrote in a statement at the time. “As House Majority Leader he has the power to move HB 81.”

That bill extended in-state tuition if a student met criteria like attending high school in Florida for at least three years, and graduating from a Florida high school, among other things. The measure died without receiving a hearing in the House.

Last year, a bill was filed offering in-state tuition rates to U.S-born students whose parents were undocumented. It passed the House on a 111-4 vote, but was not taken up in the Senate.